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Alex Konrad / Forbes:
Emails: X has begun work on an account handle marketplace for purchasing handles left unused, requesting a flat fee of $50K from potential buyers in some cases  —  Rumored to be in the works for the past year, the initiative appears to have begun rolling out recently, with email solicitations being sent to potential buyers.
New York Times:
Sources: GM spent an average of $588M a quarter on Cruise in the past year, up 42% YoY, and staff intervened to assist Cruise's vehicles every 2.5 to five miles  —  Cruise has hired a law firm to investigate how it responded to regulators, as its cars sit idle and questions grow about its C.E.O.'s expansion plans.
Andrew Hayward / Decrypt:
OpenSea lays off ~50% of staff and is moving to “OpenSea 2.0”; after laying off 20% of its workforce in July 2022, the NFT marketplace said 230 staff remained  —  A company representative told Decrypt that approximately 50% of employees were impacted across the company.
Gabor Cselle / Gabor Cselle on Medium:
The CEO of Pebble, formerly T2, on why the social network failed: not prioritizing building an app, Threads' launch, not enough interesting content, and more  —  Tl;dr We tried to build a Twitter alternative from scratch, starting a few weeks after Elon Musk took over Twitter and laid off half the company.
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Byju's files much-delayed financial results: $270.9M operating loss and revenue of $429.18M for FY ending March 2022, missing revenue projections of $1.25B  —  Indian edtech giant Byju's said on Saturday that revenue of its core business, its largest, in the financial year ending March 2022 stood …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
A security researcher says that a Flipper Zero device can carry out DoS attacks on iPhones running iOS 17 by continuously sending Bluetooth pairing requests  —  No cure yet for a popular iPhone attack, except for turning off Bluetooth.  —  One morning two weeks ago, security researcher Jeroen van der Ham …
NBC News:
On Instagram, journalists and creators inside Gaza see a surge in followers as they document the Israel-Hamas war, even as Meta has broadly moved away from news  —  One journalist has added more than 12 million followers.  The work highlights some of the challenges and dangers of covering the conflict.
More: SPJ News.  Threads: @jasonabbruzzese and @jasonabbruzzese.  Bluesky: @mattnavarra.com.  X: @jasonabbruzzese.  LinkedIn: Marc Owen Jones
Alex Cranz / The Verge:
An eulogy for the Touch Bar, which held incredible promise but never got out of the proof-of-concept phase due to a lack of interest from developers and Apple  —  The Touch Bar was too ahead of its time.  This happens occasionally.  We finally reach the point we can make a really cool idea …

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Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
WME is selling sports marketing agency 160over90 to Publicis Groupe for, sources say, $500M+; WME bought the agency in 2018 for about $200M

Erik Wemple / New York Times:
Judges have now cited verbal attacks on the press by Trump and appointees when ruling against the US government in at least three cases involving news outlets

The Intercept:
In an amicus brief, 42 media outlets and advocates argue Trump's EO targeting some law firms restricts media access to pro bono and inexpensive legal counsel

More News

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft employees will keep free access to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate after Phil Spencer stepped in to reverse the company's plans to remove the benefit
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
An interview with Mozilla Senior Director of Content Carolyn O'Hara about joining the fediverse, technical hurdles when onboarding users, moderation, and more
Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet:
Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ release the source code for OpenELA, their Red Hat Enterprise Linux challenger, offering all the packages to build an enterprise Linux OS

Earlier Picks

Thomas Claburn / The Register:
As the EU prepared to designate Apple as a gatekeeper under the DMA, Apple argued that it has three distinct browsers: Safari for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Okta says hackers who breached its support system in October accessed the files of 134 customers, five of whom were later targeted in session hijacking attacks
Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Google ends its deal with Lendlease to build 15K homes in the Bay Area; in 2019, Google announced plans to build houses on $750M+ worth of land the company owns
Joseph Hoppe / Wall Street Journal:
The UK CMA says Meta pledged to let Facebook Marketplace users opt out of Meta using their data and limit how the company uses ad data for product development
Akash Sriram / Reuters:
Elon Musk says xAI will release its AI model called Grok to a select group on November 4 and to all X Premium+ subscribers once it's out of early beta
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